Re: [HIST??] Culture shock

I would argue that the same situation exists here in America, where laws
don't appear to apply to one who makes enough money, and corporation
co-operate with law enforcement as they see fit, aided by their bought
representatives in our gov't.

On Tue, 2002-06-25 at 11:33, Allan Goodall wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Jun 2002 08:19:56 -0700 (PDT), John Atkinson
> <johnmatkinson@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> >The Japanese didn't get
> >effective democracy until we nuked them flat.
> 
> I will only slightly disagree with you here in the sense that it's
debatable
> whether or not they actually _did_ get effective democracy. *grin*
It's
> obvious that corporations have become the new aristocracy in Japan.
> 
> 
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